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Re: Why OD on 4spd and not just 5spd?

To: <WSpohn4@aol.com>, "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Why OD on 4spd and not just 5spd?
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:40:48 -0800
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

I do recall the TR3, I used to drive a roommate's on occasion. It tended 
to pop out of 3rd gear so we used 2nd OD instead...

WSpohn4@aol.com had this to say:

><BTW, the late OD only operated in 4th gear, for some reason. I've always 
>wondered why they changed it>
>
>The torque capacity of the small Laycock de Normanville unit fitted to the 
>Bs 
>was not really up to full throttle acceleration in a lower gear. The ones we 
>use in racing must be upgraded with larger accumulator pistons, stronger 
>springs and better linings, OR used only judiciously in top gear.
>
>BTW, the TR3 had a 7 speed box - the OD (a bigger LdeN unit) operated in 
>2nd, 
>3rd, and 4th.
>
>Bill Spohn
>


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
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